Even if the dog beds in the pet shop didn't cost tens and tens (sometimes almost a hundred) dollars, I wouldn't buy one. Because, I'm getting to the point where I think of everything I buy as an eventual disposal problem, and who-the-heck knows what kinds of non-biodegradable things are in the foam of dog beds?
But the dog beds in the pet shop do cost a bunch of money, so that's my official excuse for not purchasing one. And yet, Prewash likes curling up in the dog bed my step-daughter (and self-declared Dog Nut) bought her. So I'm not averse to dog beds in particular, just averse to buying something from a store.
And so here's the description of how/why I made a dog bed out of an old quilt. It's a quilt my mom bought for me many decades and decades ago, as I was heading off to college. Over the years, the quilt pieces started fraying, and finally I declared it Not-Fit-for-Human-Use, but still Perfectly-Acceptable-For-Dogs.
The first stage of making a quilt into a dog bed was just to fold it over with the fraying side inside and throw it on the floor.
Prewash is not particularly picky when it comes to dog beds. She thinks any kind of fabric on the ground makes a great bed: my husband's sweatshirt, a folded quilt, my husband's jeans, her official dog bed, my husband's t-shirt . . . (sense a pattern here?).
She loves lying on the quilt if there are no piles of laundry present, although she tended to unfold the blanket, and then the quilt became a tripping hazard. So the second stage of making a quilt into a dog bed was to fold the quilt into fourths and sew it into that shape. The sewing machine is my friend, even through four layers of worn-out quilt.
I could have left it that way, all flat, but I think it's totally adorable when Prewash curls up into a little ball inside her store-bought bed, looking like an egg in a nest. So I wanted to give this dog bed walls that she could curl up inside.
Enter the third stage of making a quilt into a dog bed. The sewing machine couldn't make its way through eight layers of quilt, so I got out a heavy-duty needle and some button thread. I sewed a triangle at each corner . . .
And then folded the triangle flat against one of the new walls, and stitched the pieces together.
When it was done, the Former-Quilt-cum-Dog-Bed looked a bit like a rectangular nest. Voila!
Let's see how well this works for holding a dog . . .
Maybe if we wait a while, she'll take to the bed?
Oh, well, it was worth a try. Maybe someday I'll figure out how to make a dog bed she actually likes curling up in.
Someday.
But the dog beds in the pet shop do cost a bunch of money, so that's my official excuse for not purchasing one. And yet, Prewash likes curling up in the dog bed my step-daughter (and self-declared Dog Nut) bought her. So I'm not averse to dog beds in particular, just averse to buying something from a store.
And so here's the description of how/why I made a dog bed out of an old quilt. It's a quilt my mom bought for me many decades and decades ago, as I was heading off to college. Over the years, the quilt pieces started fraying, and finally I declared it Not-Fit-for-Human-Use, but still Perfectly-Acceptable-For-Dogs.
The first stage of making a quilt into a dog bed was just to fold it over with the fraying side inside and throw it on the floor.
Prewash is not particularly picky when it comes to dog beds. She thinks any kind of fabric on the ground makes a great bed: my husband's sweatshirt, a folded quilt, my husband's jeans, her official dog bed, my husband's t-shirt . . . (sense a pattern here?).
She loves lying on the quilt if there are no piles of laundry present, although she tended to unfold the blanket, and then the quilt became a tripping hazard. So the second stage of making a quilt into a dog bed was to fold the quilt into fourths and sew it into that shape. The sewing machine is my friend, even through four layers of worn-out quilt.
I could have left it that way, all flat, but I think it's totally adorable when Prewash curls up into a little ball inside her store-bought bed, looking like an egg in a nest. So I wanted to give this dog bed walls that she could curl up inside.
Enter the third stage of making a quilt into a dog bed. The sewing machine couldn't make its way through eight layers of quilt, so I got out a heavy-duty needle and some button thread. I sewed a triangle at each corner . . .
And then folded the triangle flat against one of the new walls, and stitched the pieces together.
When it was done, the Former-Quilt-cum-Dog-Bed looked a bit like a rectangular nest. Voila!
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| A very floppy rectangular nest, all ready for my dog egg. |
Let's see how well this works for holding a dog . . .
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| Well, her *paws* fit in the bed at least. |
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| Okay, now half her body fits. |
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| Oops, no back to the front paws only. |
Someday.
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| Dawwwww . . . |
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